Deaths in March 1992

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 1992.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

1

 * Marie Déa, 79, French actress, fire accident.
 * Pierre Maudru, 99, French screenwriter.
 * Howard Payne, 60, English Olympic track and field athlete.
 * Karlo Štajner, 90, Austrian-Yugoslav communist activist and Gulag survivor.

2

 * Scott Appleton, 50, American football player, heart failure.
 * Martin Camaj, 66, Albanian folklorist, linguist, and writer.
 * Robert Clatworthy, 80, American art director (Ship of Fools, Psycho, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), Oscar winner (1966).
 * Sandy Dennis, 54, American actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Out of Towners, Any Wednesday), Oscar winner (1967), ovarian cancer.
 * Subimal Dutt, 88, Indian diplomat.
 * Ron Hardy, 33, American DJ and house music pioneer, AIDS-related illness.
 * Samuel Marx, 90, American film producer, screenwriter and book author.
 * Jackie Mudie, 61, Scottish footballer, cancer.
 * Adolfo Sarti, 63, Italian politician.

3

 * Robert Beatty, 82, Canadian-English actor (2001: A Space Odyssey, Where Eagles Dare, Labyrinth).
 * Laurent Henric, 86, French football player and coach.
 * Lella Lombardi, 50, Italian racing driver, liver cancer.
 * Dante Maggio, 83, Italian film actor.
 * Harley Parker, 76, Canadian artist and scholar.
 * Saara Ranin, 94, Finnish actress.
 * Sukumar Sen, 92, Indian linguist.
 * G. L. S. Shackle, 88, English economist.

4

 * Néstor Almendros, 61, Spanish cinematographer (Days of Heaven, Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie's Choice), Oscar winner (1979), AIDS-related lymphoma.
 * Art Babbitt, 84, American animator (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Dumbo), kidney failure.
 * Joseph Buttinger, 85, American politician.
 * Alabbas Iskandarov, 33, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * Pare Lorentz, 86, American filmmaker, cancer.
 * Mary Osborne, 70, American guitarist, leukemia.
 * Larry Rosenthal, 81, American baseball player.
 * Sándor Veress, 85, Hungarian-Swiss composer.
 * Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, 65, Soviet and Russian actor, heart attack.

5

 * Jam Sadiq Ali, 93, Pakistani politician.
 * Santos Balmori, 92, Spanish-Mexican painter.
 * Peter Hadland Davis, 73, British botanist.
 * Karin Hardt, 81, German actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Giuseppe Olmo, 80, Italian road bicycle racer.
 * Eduardo Airaldi Rivarola, 70, Peruvian basketball player, coach, and referee.
 * Andy Samuel, 82, American child actor (Our Gang), cancer.
 * Sunder, 83, Indian film actor.
 * David Walker, 81, Scottish-Canadian novelist.

6

 * Elvia Allman, 87, American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, The Nutty Professor), pneumonia.
 * Alojz Benac, 77, Bosnian and Yugoslav archaeologist and historian.
 * Silviu Bindea, 79, Romanian football player and coach.
 * Léo Campion, 86, French actor and freemason.
 * Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, 83, Portuguese painter.
 * Ranjit Desai, 63, Indian marathi writer.
 * Hugh Gibb, 76, English drummer, father of the Bee Gees, internal bleeding.
 * Otto Klineberg, 92, Canadian-American psychologist, Parkinson's disease.
 * David Stone Martin, 78, American artist.
 * Erik Nordgren, 79, Swedish composer, arranger and bandleader.

7

 * Charles Claxton, 88, English anglican prelate.
 * Asaf Messerer, 88, Soviet ballet dancer and ballet teacher.
 * Gunnar Sträng, 85, American politician.
 * Hans Zeisel, 86, Austrian-American sociologist and legal scholar.

8

 * Red Callender, 76, American musician, thyroid cancer.
 * Paddy Coad, 71, Irish football player and manager.
 * Sherman Edwards, 82, American baseball player.
 * Pentti Papinaho, 65, Finnish sculptor.

9

 * Menachem Begin, 78, Israeli politician, prime minister (1977–1983), Nobel Prize recipient (1978), heart attack.
 * James Brooks, 85, American artist.
 * Monty Budwig, 62, American bassist.
 * Franco Margola, 83, Italian composer.
 * Keris Mas, 69, Malaysian writer, heart attack.
 * Felipe Turich, 93, Mexican actor, pneumonia.
 * Arthur Van De Vijver, 44, Belgian racing cyclist.

10

 * Krasimira Bogdanova, 42, Bulgarian basketball player.
 * Vladimir Ivković, 62, Yugoslav Olympic water polo player (1952, 1956).
 * Wilhelm Rudolf Mann, 97, German factory manager for IG Farben and Bayer during World War II.
 * Enrico Mollo, 78, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Helmut Reichmann, 50-51, German world champion glider pilot, mid-air collision.
 * Luis Usoz, 59, Spanish field hockey player.
 * Giorgos Zampetas, 67, Greek musician, bone cancer.

11

 * László Benedek, 87, Hungarian-American film director (The Wild One, Death of a Salesman, Port of New York).
 * Richard Brooks, 79, American film director and screenwriter (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Blackboard Jungle, Elmer Gantry), Oscar winner (1961), heart failure.
 * David Carroll, 41, American actor (Grand Hotel), pulmonary embolism.
 * Liu Geping, 87, Chinese communist revolutionary and politician.
 * Norm Hall, 65, American racecar driver.
 * Anton Ingolič, 85, Slovenian novelist.
 * Lily May Perry, 97, Canadian-American botanist.
 * Eddie Sadowski, 77, American basketball player.
 * Joaquín Satrústegui, 82, Spanish politician.

12

 * Girolamo Bortignon, 86, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Max Catto, 84, English playwright and novelist.
 * Aleksandyr Christow, 87, Bulgarian football player.
 * Harold Hobson, 87, English theatre critic.
 * Elgiz Karimov, 21, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * Hans G. Kresse, 70, Dutch cartoonist (Eric de Noorman).
 * Heinz Kühn, 80, German politician.
 * Lucy M. Lewis, 94, Native American potter.
 * Salvatore Lima, 64, Italian politician and mafioso, murdered.
 * Phyllis Stanley, 77, British actress.
 * Aino Talvi, 83, Estonian actress and singer.

13

 * Frieda Fronmüller, 90, German lutheran church musician and composer.
 * Adolfo Odnoposoff, 75, Argentine cellist.
 * Irmã Dulce Pontes, 77, Brazilian Roman Catholic nun and philanthropist.
 * Osvaldo Reig, 62, Argentine biologist and paleontologist.
 * Donald W. Riegle, Sr., 74, American politician.

14

 * Bill Allum, 75, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
 * Teymur Elchin, 67, Azerbaijani poet and publicist.
 * Ralph James, 67, American voice actor (Mork & Mindy, Spider-Man, The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show).
 * Glenn Liebhardt, 81, American baseball player.
 * Steven Brian Pennell, 34, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Jean Poiret, 65, French actor and playwright, heart attack.
 * Barry Roseborough, 59, Canadian football player.
 * Alvin Schwartz, 64, American author and journalist, lymphoma.
 * Arthur Studenroth, 92, American Olympic cross country runner (1924).
 * Elfrida Vipont, 89, English writer of children's literature.

15

 * Pietro Bucalossi, 86, Italian physician and politician.
 * Helen Deutsch, 85, American screenwriter.
 * Allan Dick, 76, New Zealand politician.
 * Sergio Guerri, 86, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Deane Montgomery, 82, American mathematician specializing in topology.
 * Rahi Masoom Raza, 64, Indian poet and writer and Bollywood lyricist.
 * Jaap van der Vecht, 85, Dutch entomologist and academic.

16

 * Jean Denis, 89, Belgian politician and writer.
 * Ron Howell, 56, Canadian football player.
 * Roger Lemelin, 72, Canadian writer, lung cancer.
 * Wang Renzhong, 75, Chinese political leader.
 * Yves Rocard, 88, French nuclear physicist.
 * Pyotr Shcherbakov, 62, Soviet film and theater actor.
 * Joschi Walter, 66, Austrian football player.

17

 * Jack Arnold, 75, American film director (Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Incredible Shrinking Man, It Came from Outer Space), arteriosclerosis.
 * Aat de Roos, 72, Dutch Olympic field hockey player (1936).
 * Manuel Ferreira, 74, Portuguese writer.
 * Gøril Havrevold, 77, Norwegian stage and film actress.
 * Franklin R. Levy, 43, American film producer (Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, My Stepmother Is an Alien, Nighthawks), pulmonary embolism.
 * Monika Mann, 81, German author.
 * László Orczán, 80, Hungarian Olympic cyclist (1936).
 * Grace Stafford, 88, American actress (voice of Woody Woodpecker), spinal cancer

18

 * Arnold Diamond, 76, English actor, traffic collision.
 * Harry Hubbick, 81, English football player.
 * Jack Kelsey, 62, Welsh football goalkeeper.
 * Mario Landi, 71, Italian director.
 * Antonio Molina, 64, Spanish flamenco dancer, singer and actor.

19

 * Cesare Danova, 66, Italian actor (Mean Streets, Cleopatra, Animal House), heart attack.
 * Franziska Donner, 91, First Lady of South Korea as wife of president Syngman Rhee.
 * Wayne Dumont, 77, American politician.
 * Michael Aloysius Feighan, 87, American politician.
 * Oscar Gugen, 82, British diver.
 * Marilyn Moore, 60, American jazz singer.
 * Ed Prentiss, 83, American radio actor.

20

 * George Whelan Anderson, Jr., 85, American admiral and diplomat.
 * Lina Bo Bardi, 77, Italian-Brazilian architect.
 * Georges Delerue, 67, French film composer (A Little Romance, Platoon, Julia), Oscar winner (1980), heart attack.
 * Ioannis Kakridis, 90, Greek classical scholar.
 * Armando Testa, 74, Italian graphic designer, cartoonist, animator and painter.

21

 * Safiyar Behbudov, 24, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, killed in action.
 * John Ireland, 78, Canadian actor (All the King's Men, Spartacus, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral), leukemia.
 * René König, 85, German sociologist.
 * John C. Sheehan, 76, American organic chemist.
 * Natalie Sleeth, 61, American composer, cancer.

22

 * Joe Cantada, 50, Filipino sportscaster, lung cancer.
 * Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton, 64, British solicitor and politician.
 * Arthur Cronquist, 73, American biologist and botanist.
 * Androkli Kostallari, 69, Albanian linguist and scholar.
 * Melissa Stribling, 65, Scottish actress (Dracula, The League of Gentlemen, Compact).

23

 * Jane Bernigau, 83, German SS Oberaufseherin before and during World War II
 * Gurdial Singh Dhillon, 76, Indian politician from the Indian National Congress party.
 * Friedrich Hayek, 92, Austrian economist, Nobel Prize recipient (1974).
 * Ron Lapointe, 42, Canadian ice hockey coach, kidney cancer.

24

 * Ryszard Białous, 77, Polish military figure.
 * James K. Dressel, 48, American politician, AIDS.
 * Albert Murray, 85, American painter.
 * François Vallier, 91, French cross-country skier and Olympian.
 * Naig Yusifov, 22, Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.

25

 * Howard Christie, 79, American film producer.
 * William Hoyt, 54, American politician, heart attack.
 * Jahangir Jahangirov, 70, Soviet and Azerbaijani composer, conductor and choirmaster.
 * Tahia Kazem, 72, First Lady of Egypt as wife of president Gamal Abdel Nasser.
 * William Sears, 80, American writer and television and radio personality.
 * Florence van Straten, 78, American atmospheric scientist, cancer.
 * Nancy Walker, 69, American actress (Rhoda, McMillan & Wife, True Colors), lung cancer.
 * Phillip Wilson, 50, American blues and jazz drummer, murdered.

26

 * Bruno Cassinari, 79, Italian painter and sculptor.
 * Elwood Driver, 70, American aviator.
 * Barbara Frum, 54, Canadian journalist, leukemia.
 * Nan Gindele, 81, American athlete and Olympian.
 * Arthur Lees, 84, English golfer.
 * Rihei Sano, 79, Japanese football player.

27

 * Gordon Adam, 76, American rower and Olympic champion.
 * Easley Blackwood, 88, American bridge player.
 * Anita Colby, 77, American actress.
 * Gerry Duggan, 81, Irish-Australian actor.
 * Lang Hancock, 82, Australian iron ore magnate.
 * Tom Kahn, 53, American trade union leader and civil right activist, AIDS.
 * Leueen MacGrath, 77, English actress, complications from a stroke.
 * Prem Nawas, 60, Indian actor and producer, train accident.
 * Harald Sæverud, 94, Norwegian composer.
 * James E. Webb, 85, American federal official, Administrator of NASA (1961–1968), heart attack.

28

 * Ernie Caddel, 81, American gridiron football player.
 * Janne Furch, 76, German screenwriter.
 * Elisabeth Granneman, 61, Norwegian singer, songwriter, children's writer and actress.
 * Hari Ram Gupta, 90, Indian historian.
 * Wendell Mayes, 72, American screenwriter (Anatomy of a Murder, Von Ryan's Express, Death Wish), cancer.
 * Blackie Pitt, 67, American NASCAR racing driver, cancer.
 * Nikolaos Platon, 83, Greek archaeologist.
 * Maurice Teynac, 76, French actor.
 * Willard Tibbetts, 89, American Olympic runner (1924).

29

 * Christopher Hawkes, 86, English archaeologist.
 * William L. Hendricks, 87, United States Marine Corps officer and film producer.
 * Paul Henreid, 84, Austrian-American actor (Casablanca, Now, Voyager, Joan of Paris), complications from a stroke.
 * Fərhad Qəmbər oğlu Hümbətov, 23, Azerbaijani soldier and war hero, killed in action.
 * Archie Marshek, 90, American film editor.
 * John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, 68, English peer, courtier, and father of Diana, Princess of Wales, heart attack.
 * Cecil F. White, 91, American farmer and politician.
 * Eberhard Wächter, 62, Austrian baritone, heart attack.
 * Bashir Hussain Zaidi, 93, Indian politician.

30

 * Spirydion Albański, 84, Polish footballer.
 * Manolis Andronikos, 72, Greek archaeologist.
 * Luigi De Laurentiis, 75, Italian film producer.
 * Amédée Fournier, 80, French road bicycle racer.
 * Bert Grund, 72, German composer.
 * Gerhard Gustmann, 81, German Olympic rower (1936).
 * Harold LeVander, 81, American attorney and politician.
 * Winnie Shaw, 45, Scottish tennis player, brain cancer.

31

 * Pam Buchanan, 55, Australian politician.
 * Alfredo de Angelis, 79, Argentinian musician.
 * N. R. Pillai, 93, Indian civil servant.
 * Doug Roby, 94, American football player and Olympic Games official.
 * Zenon Różycki, 78, Polish basketball player.
 * Ken Silvestri, 75, American baseball player, coach and manager.